Re: 2.1 kernels on SX164?

[Peter Rye <prye picu-sgh demon co uk>]

>>>>> "Don" == Don Crimbchin <djc2@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

    Don> Peter Rye wrote:
    >>  >>>>> "Quant-X" == Quant-X Alpha Linux Support <stefan@sime.com>
    >> writes:
    >> 
    >>  This should be done for you if you "make boot". I wonder if he just
    >> did "make vmlinux" or similar?
    >> 

    Don> Well, I thought I used "make boot".  I untarred the sources and
    Don> patched them again yet again, and ran "make boot" again, and this
    Don> time kernel managed to load.  I'm really not sure what I did
    Don> different.

    Don> Althought the kernel loads now, it gives me lots (LOTS!) of errors
    Don> to the console like this:

    Don>   CPU[0]: where [fffffc000031735c] glocked[1] gicnt[1] licnt[1]

    Don> One rather important thing i forgot to mention--(because I thought
    Don> the problem was with MILO, rather than the kernel) when I was
    Don> building the kernel, I got two parse errors in ide-probe.c.  (I
    Don> have IDE, not SCSI).

    Don> The parse errors were at lines 531 and 696

    Don> devices/block/ide-probe.c

    Don> 531: #if (DEBUG_SPINLOCK > 0) 532: printk("hwgroup(%s) spinlock is
    Don> %p\n", hwif->name, &hwgroup->spinlock); /* FIXME */ 533: #endif

Did you comment out "SMP = 1" in the top level Makefile? (Assuming your
alpha is a uniprocessor machine).